The Tenth Annual Luncheon Benefiting The John Fairy Garden
Mary Barone: & Cece Fowler, Co-Chairs
Nancy Stallworth Thomas, Honorce
Carrie Rebora Barratt, Guest Speaker
The Bayou Club, Houston, Texas
Thursday, October 19, 2023
11:30 am - 1 pm
Please join us to celebrate this important conservation garden and singular cultural landscape.
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Thank you again for all you do to ensure we succeed in our mission to preserve, share, and advance the horticultural and artistic legacy of John Fairey.
Nancy Stallworth Thomas’ vision, dedication, and leadership in the field of horticulture, civic improvement, and preservation have been recognized both locally and nationally. She has worked tirelessly to make our community, state, and nation a more beautiful place.
Nancy served as President of the Garden Club of America from 1991-1993, and received many awards for her service including its highest accolade, The Achievement Medal, which she was awarded in 2005. She was a board member and First Vice President of the American Horticulture Society, receiving its 2001 Meritorious Service Award. Other national level commitments include the Boards of the Garden Conservancy, the Center for Plant Conservation, and three terms as President of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Board.
Many local organizations have benefited from Nancy’s efforts including The Houston Arboretum & Nature Center, Sheltering Arms, Houston Child Guidance Center, and the Houston Clean City Commission. She was also the founding President of the Houston Botanic Garden and continues her commitment by serving on the Executive Committee as Chairman Emerita, and Chairman of the Horticulture Planning Committee.
As a member of the Garden Conservancy Board and a founding member of the Peckerwood Gardens Conservation Foundation, Inc., Nancy was instrumental in helping John Fairey transition his private garden, then called Peckerwood, into the public garden today known as The John Fairey Garden, the first and only Garden Conservancy preservation garden in Texas. We are honored to be able to acknowledge Nancy’s outsized contribution to our Garden.
Carrie Rebora Barratt is an energetic and collaborative executive leader who has deployed her growth and resilience mindset into organizational culture in top cultural institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Botanical Garden, and LongHouse Reserve.
At The Met, she rose from summer intern to Deputy Director, leading twenty-seven departments and over four hundred staff — curatorial, conservation and scientific research, libraries, education, publications, and digital. In 2018, she took over the New York Botanical Garden as ninth CEO and President, the first woman to hold the position in its one hundred and twenty-seven year history.
She joined LongHouse Reserve in autumn 2021, invited to lead the institution through transition and turnaround following the passing of founder Jack Lenor Larsen (1927-2020). Since then, she has stewarded the sixteen-acre integrated environment within a mission to inspire living with art in all forms, serving the community with vast open space, programs in art, nature, and wellness, providing a sanctuary for Long Island and beyond.
TAKING ROOT CO-CHAIRS
Mary Barone
Cece Fowler
TAKING ROOT HOST COMMITTEE
Nancy Abendshein
Adam Adams
Natalye Appel & John Casbarian
Keiji Asakura
Fredricka Brecht
Marianna Brewster
Frank Briscoe
Amy & Rob Bryant
Susie & Sanford Criner
Jane and Bill Curtis
Mack Fowler
Stephanie & Clinton Fox
Satara Henry
Rebekah Johnson & Randy Twaddle
Madeline Kelly
Page Kempner
David Klein
Christopher Knapp
Letty Knapp
Dillon Kyle & Sam Lasseter
Doug Lawing
Marley Lott
Tom McCasland
Mark McKinnon
Mary Hale McLean
Joe Meppelink
Betty Moody
Eric Mullens
Vancee Muse & Karl Palazzolo
Franci Neely
Susan Raine & Chris Nelson
Betty Newton
Judy Nyquist
Vivie O'Sullivan
Cabrina & Steven Owsley
Jessica Phifer
Karen Pinson
Winifred Reiser
Lori Speier
Maggie Tsang & Isaac Stein
Kim Sterling
Kingslea Thomas
Ann and Dave Thompson
Sandra Tirey & Jan R. van Lohuizen
Susie & Payson Tucker
Tonya & Wally Wilkins
Vallette Windham
Susan Young
QUERCUS INSIGNIS
Fredricka Brecht
Jane & Bill Curtis / Dillon Kyle & Sam Lasseter
Cece & Mack Fowler
Nancy Thomas
Susan Young
MIQUIHUANA MAHONIA
Anonymous
Mary & Marcel Barone
Klein Equities
Christopher Knapp in honor of Nancy
Thomas & Antonia Adezio
Marley Lott
Cabrina & Steven Owsley
Karen & Harry Pinson
Vallette & Russell Windham
JACALA RAIN LILY
Stephanie Kaldis Fox, Botanica Landscaping Services
Page Kempner
Susan Raine & Chris Nelson / ttweak
Metalab / Renfrow+Co
Winifred Riser & Susie Tucker
Sandra Tirey & Jan R. van Lohuizen
Elena White & Tom McCasland
Tonya & Wally Wilkins
BRAHEA MOOREII
Adam Adams
Jay Jones
Wendy Kelsey
Jill & Jerry Kyle
Mary Hale McLean
Judy Nyquist in honor of Cece Fowler
Anne Whitlock
Vivie & Chris O’Sullivan
AGAVE OVATIFOLIA
Natalye Appel & John Casbarian
Adel Bentsen
Sis & Hasty Johnson
Rebekah Johnson & Randy Twaddle
Betty Moody
Anne Lewis & David Morris
Gary & Louise Moss
Jessica Phifer
Carol & Dan Price
Jill Whitten & Rob Proctor
Lori Speier
FRIENDS OF THE GARDEN
Frank Briscoe
Vance Muse & Carl Palazzolo
Joe & Anne Romano
THE JOHN FAIREY GARDEN
CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Wally Wilkins - President
Mark McKinnon - Vice President
Jane Curtis - Secretary
Susan Young - Treasurer
Adam Adams
Frank Briscoe
Satara Henry
David Klein
Tom McCasland
Eric Mullens
Ann Thompson
Executive Director
Randy Twaddle
Founder
John Gaston Fairey (1930-2020)